year, with the abstraction
consents to take and use exercised in the reported period.
During the period under review, the Company demonstrated a good level of
environmental performance at the Motukawa power scheme.
The Council’s monitoring for the period under review included 50 inspections of fish passage
and residual flow facilities, continuous river monitoring at three sites between November and
April each year, two biomonitoring surveys and three fish surveys of receiving waters, and
assess the companies’ environmental
performance during the period under review, and the results and effects of the companies’
activities.
A total of 12 resource consents are held, which include a total of 101 conditions setting out
the requirements that the companies must satisfy.
The Council's monitoring programme included site inspections, the collection of discharge
water samples, sampling of the receiving water body for physico-chemical analysis, and a
fish survey. A hydrometric
hydroelectric power scheme. This permit was issued by the Taranaki Regional Council on 21 March 2001
under Section 87(e) of the Resource Management Act. It is due to expire on 1 June 2018.
Existing dams/weirs generally do not need a resource consent if they are less than 3m high, do not
restrict fish passage and the upstream catchment is less than 25ha. If a dam is to be constructed it must
also meet other standards relating to environmental effects during construction. Please refer
Hydroelectric Power Scheme
(HEP) scheme in the Waiwhakaiho River catchment to the south of New Plymouth and
holds seven consents (with a total of 33 special conditions) relating to this scheme.
This report covers the monitoring activities undertaken during the 2014-2015 period by way of
an annual programme. The report provides information relating to compliance performance
by the Company in relation to lake level and residual flow maintenance, fish pass operation,
and generation discharges into the
in many ways, some have been changed
irrevocably.
• The damage is to quantity and quality of water habitats, as well as to water
quality.
• Waterway quality is best measured by multiple factors; such as E. coli,
ecotoxicity, clarity, nitrogen and phosphorus levels, and the health of plant,
insect and fish populations.
• There will be hundreds of fixes, implemented by every New Zealander in their
working and personal lives, along every stretch of waterway.
No one in New Zealand
level and residual flow maintenance, fish pass
operation, and generation discharges into the lower river. It documents the performance of the
residual flow device in maintaining residual flows through the 6 km reach of the river
between the intake weir and powerhouse outlet. It also documents aspects of previous native
fish monitoring within the catchment, the macroinvertebrate biology of the river, and
continuous monitoring of river water temperatures through the middle and lower reaches of
Council’s monitoring for the period under review included nine inspections of fish passage and residual
flow facilities, continuous water temperature monitoring at two sites between November and April, a
biomonitoring survey and fish monitoring. In addition, all monitoring data provided by Trustpower was
reviewed. The range of information provided by Trustpower included abstraction and discharge data, lake
and race water level information and fish transfer data (elver and adult eel).
The
under review, and the results and environmental effects of their activities.
During the monitoring period, STDC demonstrated an overall high level of environmental
performance.
During the 2016-2017 monitoring period the Council’s monitoring programme included ten inspections, the
collection of nine water samples for physicochemical analysis, two biomonitoring surveys of receiving water,
two fish surveys, and a review of abstraction, stream flow and discharge data provided by the consent
presented in previous compliance reports for the scheme. Monitoring
data and draft reports for the 2018-2019 upstream and downstream fish transfers and the lower 2018-2019
lower ecological survey report are currently awaiting finalisation through the stakeholder and expert panel
review process and are expected to be completed in early 2020. The Company also provided the Council
with the 2018-2019 Lake Rotorangi Sedimentation report, the 2018-2019 Lower Erosion Survey Report, and
confirmation on the